Venturing a guess. Its the hype of the non-technical automation crowd. APIs are hard for these people to grok and work with. The others are the engineering/dev/product crowd, the best among them have a high BS detector threshold. The former are a lot more numerically and its why the hype is so high.

Whereas the former see things talking to each other across boundaries with a minimal set up, the latter might look at it and see/say: "hard leaky abstractions"/"Poor security model"/"High $/task", you can't you build/sell it.

Where the latter crowd might exclaim: "Look my slack bot can confirm with my doctor when calendar appointment is near. SaaS tools are dead!". The engineering/dev/product are more sceptical and they are right to be so.

OpenClaw is more of a resident AI. It's always running, has access to loads of systems beyond coding (eg email, calendar, browser), and you have many ways to talk to it (like WhatsApp, Signal etc).

It's also an atomic bomb of a security hole waiting to explode.

It's not a replacement for claude code, the people using it are typically somewhat less technical and might use it to code but are primarily interested in automations (particularly ones they can post about on social media).